A Journalist Becomes a Scientist For 10 Days | Chelsea Wald

I loved school. That's one reason why I became a science journalist--so I could keep learning a wide variety of new things at a breakneck pace. And I do! But school was so much more, um, organized, supervised, and full of positive feedback than journalism is. These days, when I'm deep in the muck of a complex story (as I am right now), I still miss that.

SJP Fellows at Cape Cod National Seashore — Some of the Logan Science Journalism Fellows on a field trip on Cape Cod. Credit: Diana Kenney

Recently, I found a way to get my fix. The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, hosts the Logan Science Journalism Program, which treats journalists as scientists for 10 days. Read more of the article here.

Source: I was a scientist (OK, maybe more like a lab assistant) for 10 days | Chelsea Wald